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A SILVER SAUCEBOAT

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A SILVER SAUCEBOAT
MAKER'S MARK OF SAMUEL BURT, BOSTON, 1745-1750

Oval, with scalloped and flaring rim and a raised scroll handle with an acanthus-leaf grip, on three scroll legs with molded knees and shell feet, marked SAMUEL BURT in shaped cartouche--8 3/8in. long, 5in. high
(15 oz. 10 dwt.)

Lot Essay

A pair of identical sauceboats by Samuel Burt is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver vol. I (1972), figs. 238, 239. Silver by Samuel Burt is scarce, as he died at the age of 31 in 1754.